A Funeral Service for Joanne M. Roseen of Roseau, MN will be held on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 11:00AM at Moe Lutheran Church in Roseau, MN. Visitation will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2024 from 5-7PM at Helgeson Funeral Home in Roseau, MN with a prayer service at 7PM. Interment will take place at Malung Cemetery.
Joanne Marie Roseen of Roseau passed away peacefully on November 13,2024, at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks with her loving family by her side. Joanne was born September 11, 1943, in Warroad, the daughter of John and Evangeline (Lucier) Pick. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Warroad.
Growing up she was active in cheerleading, yearbook, choir, GAA and helping her father on the mink ranch. She also worked as a waitress at Page’s Café during high
school. In 1961, Joanne graduated from Warroad High School and then attended college at Bemidji State University studying English and Art. On September 28, 1963, she was united in marriage to Wayne Roseen at Zion Lutheran Church in Warroad. To this union three children were born, Traci, Terry and Kelly.
Joanne worked for Gertie Hetteen at Northern Upholstery, sewing for Polaris in the early years and helped Wayne on the farm. In 1976, they purchased the Trading Post Gift Shop in Warroad and ran it until a tornado destroyed the business in 2006. In the off season, she worked at Coast-to-Coast in Roseau. When the kids were young, she volunteered at the Malung and Roseau schools, teaching Junior Great Books, helping with the PTA, school carnivals and post prom parties. Joanne enjoyed making and decorating cookies for the kids’ school events and also helped create the first Ram Mascot for Roseau High School. She enjoyed canning, making lefsa, lutefisk, baking cookies and excelled at making pies. She also enjoyed gardening in the summer and sewing with the quilters at Moe Lutheran Church in the winter. She was very artistic, drawing pictures for her friends and family. Joanne loved the outdoors and had a real passion for deer hunting and often
told the nurses in the hospital that she was a deer hunter. She enjoyed going to the cabin at Sandy Shores and spending time with their
neighbors.
Joanne is survived by her husband, Wayne; her daughters Traci (Noel) Joppru of Thief River Falls, Kelly (Chad Merritt) Roseen of Fargo; daughter-in-law Karin Roseen of Maplewood; grandchildren, Heather (Travis) Blumer, Amber Juhl, Jesse Foster, Taylor Roseen, Luke Roseen, Jacob (Mattie) Merritt; Great-grandchildren, Hayden Foster, Rowen Blumer, Astaire Juhl, Samara Merritt and Canute Merritt; Sister, Kathy (Dale) Moser; sisters-in-law, Deloris Schmock, Mertrice Cole, Barb Roseen; brother-in-law, Randy Holwell; and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her son, Terry; grand-daughter, Kristie; her parents, sister, Lorraine Kellogg; father- and mother-in-law, Albin and Mable Roseen and several other in-laws.
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